Me.

WindySydney began as an online journal detailing my exit from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Since leaving the Mormon Church, I have come to the conclusion that religion does more harm than good. I have also become an atheist, looking for logic and reason instead of accepting things on faith.

I also blog about things going on in my life. I am learning photography, I have a severe addiction to diet coke, I am a proud vegetarian, and I have two of the cutest cats in the world. Life is officially an adventure without the magical fairy-tale ending. I plan on enjoying it.

As I mentioned in a post earlier this week, I bought a kit to make a haunted gingerbread house for Halloween. I was excited to get started this morning, so I cleaned the kitchen to make sure I had a lot of surface to work with, I put on some drabby clothes in case I made a mess of myself, and I opened up the box and read the instructions.

I was trying to do everything the way it said, and I thought I was doing well until time came to build the structure of the house. I had one wall and the front of the house put together, and I was doing my best to hold them steady so the black icing would dry. It wouldn't dry. Maybe I am impatient, but it was taking forever. I had one pastry bag of black icing, and one bag of orange, and it was taking nearly all the black icing to get the walls up! I was discouraged, and I wasn't sure what to do.

I decided to take a break and think about some options. I have powdered sugar, eggs and water, and I had the ability to make white icing if I needed it. I decided that the house could be a black structure with white and orange details. Wrong.

I washed my hands and went back to the table to get back to work... and I saw it... the black pastry bag had somehow opened and there was black EVERYWHERE. All over everything. I could have cried. Ugh. It took me a while to clean up the mess. Now my gingerbread pieces are covered in a thick film of black... maybe I can still make it work. It can be an "artsy" house.